True. Squeaky was royally pissed off when we go rid of the fabric suite and replaced it was a leather sofa and two (much smaller) fabric arm chairs. The kicker was that we got rid of HIS chair. He sulked, hated the sofa and decided that Narelle’s office chair was the best option.

A few months on and he lurves the sofa and hasn’t scratched it or any of the newer stuff.
He is slowly adopting one of the armchairs. Thankfully it’s the one which was bought specifically with his sleeping habits in mind.

The old sofa and chairs were a mess. He would just ignore the several scratching posts and gravitate to the chairs.
Everything new was sprayed with Felliway to start. We like to think this helped as he has never shown any interest in scratching any of it.

our two destructor cats have never shown any interest in scratching the leather sofa’s, and nor did their predecessors. But of course if they climb up the sofa to get to a comfy spot then they use their claws to climb and that is when damage has been inflicted.